The event, which is the latest from the Texas-based promotion, takes place at Fair Park City Coliseum in Lubbock. The show, which is the first of 2011, marks the debut of Shark Fights on HDNet.

Horwich, a former IFL champ who’s fought for the UFC and Bellator, makes his Shark Fights debut. Since a career-worst 1-5 skid from 2008 to 2010, he’s won two of three fights, including a submission victory over one-time UFC title-challenger Thales Leites and a TKO win over three-time NCAA Division I national wrestling champion Jake Rosholt.

Villefort fights for the second time under the Shark Fights banner. The one-time UFC and WEC fighter took a bout on a week’s notice and scored a decision victory over veteran Joey Villasenor at Shark Fights 13 in September. It was his third straight win and his eighth victory in nine fights.

LaRosa, meanwhile, saw a 15-fight win streak come to an end with a 2010 split-decision defeat to Roxanne Modafferi. The BodogFIGHT veteran, though, rebounded in November with a unanimous-decision victory over recent Strikeforce title challenger Takayo Hashi. The win earned LaRosa the DaMMAge Fight League 125-pound women’s championship.

Damm, a fellow BodogFIGHT vet, looks to snap out of a two-fight skid. After posting a 10-fight win streak, Damm suffered a submission loss to Hitomi Akano at Strikeforce Challengers 10 and then a TKO defeat to Cat Zingano at a December regional event in North Dakota.

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